Jarring Prov. 4
[ Jarring Prov. 4 | Jarring's handwritten catalogue ]
A collection of sermons and formulas for different occasions.
Uighur.
Eastern Turkistan (Yarkand).
1929.
Prov. no. 4 of 557. Go to: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ... 557
Lund University Library
A collection of sermons and formulas for different occasions. Eastern Turkistan (Yarkand), 1929, Uighur
1) ff. 2a-5b The marriage sermon. Cf. Prov. 75:11, 353:3; Muginov 169, 170;
2) ff. 5b-6b A description of skrand-making;
3) ff. 6b-7a The statutes for the washing of a dead body;
4) ff. 7a-8a Another kind of rites for washing a dead body;
5) ff. 8a-13b ... .
Physical description
Extent: ff. 14 ; 150 x 120mm.
Decoration
Binding
The ms. is not bound.
Foliation
The ms. is foliated by G. Jarring.
Condition
Good
History
Origin
Copy made for the Swedish missionary Gunnar Hermansson in Yarkand, probably in 1929. Same copyist as in Prov. 1-3.Provenance
Acquisition
The ms. was part of the Jarring collection of Eastern Turkistan manuscripts donated to the Lund University Library in 1982.